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Planelogia, a succinct and seasonable discourse of the occasions, causes, nature, rise, growth, and…
Planelogia, a succinct and seasonable discourse of the occasions, causes, nature, rise, growth, and remedies of mental errors written some months since, and now made public, both for the healing and prevention of the sins and calamities which have broken in this way upon the churches of Christ, to the great scandal of religion, hardening of the wicked, and obstruction of Reformation : whereunto are subjoined by way of appendix : I. Vindiciarum vindex, being a succinct, but full answer to Mr. Philip Cary's weak and impertinent exceptions to my Vindiciæ legis & fæderis, II. a synopsis of ancient and modern Antinomian errors, with scriptural arguments and reasons against them, III. a sermon composed for the preventing and healing of rents and divisions in the churches of Christ / by John Flavell ... ; with an epistle by several divines, relating to Dr. Crisp's works.Planelogia, a succinct and seasonable discourse of the occasions, causes, nature, rise, growth, and remedies of mental errors written some months since, and now made publick, both for the healing and prevention of the sins and calamities which have broken in this way upon the churches of Christ, to the great scandal of religion, hardening of the wicked, and obstruction of Reformation : whereunto are subjoined by way of appendix : I. Vindiciarum vindex, being a succinct, but full answer to Mr. Philip Cary's weak and impertinent exceptions to my Vindiciæ legis & fæderis, II. a synopsis of ancient and modern Antinomian errors, with scriptural arguments and reasons against them, III. a sermon composed for the preventing and healing of rents and divisions in the churches of Christ / by John Flavell ... ; with an epistle by several divines, relating to Dr. Crisp's works.
London: printed by R. Roberts for Tho. Cockerill, 1691
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But (1.) If the Law were intended by God, to be an Adam's Covenant to them (as Mr. C. saith it was) where then is the Privilege of God's Israel above other Nations? (2.) If their Privilege consisted in the subserviency of that Law to Christ (as he here intimates it did) then he yields the thing I contend for. For this being its chief scope and end, we do hence justly denominate it a Covenant of Grace, though more obscure and legally administered. And in this judgment most of our solid Divines concur. Mr. Charnock on the Attributes, p. 390. is clear and judicious in the point.1 Mr. Samuel Bolton, in that excellent Book called, The Bounds of Christian Liberty, gives nine solid Arguments to prove the Law was not set up at Sinai as a Covenant of Works.2 Mr. Anth. Burgess gives us six Arguments to prove the same Conclusion. Mr. Greenhill on Ezek. 16. gives us demonstration from that Context, That since it was a Marriage-Covenant, as it appears to be v. 8. it cannot possibly be a distinct Covenant from the Covenant of Grace. The incomparable Turrettine Learnedly and Judiciously states this Controversy;3 and both positively asserts, and by many Arguments ⟨p. 205⟩fully proves, That the Sinai Law cannot be a pure Covenant of Works, or a Covenant specifically distinct from the Covenant of Grace. It were easy to fill Pages with Allegations of this kind; but I hope what hath been said, may suffice for this Point.
But (1.) If the Law were intended by God, to be an Adam's Covenant to them (as Mr. C. saith it was) where then is the Privilege of God's Israel above other Nations? (2.) If their Privilege consisted in the subserviency of that Law to Christ (as he here intimates it did) then he yields the thing I contend for. For this being its chief scope and end, we do hence justly denominate it a Covenant of Grace, though more obscure and legally administred. And in this judgment most of our solid Divines concur. Mr. Charnock on the Attributes, p. 390. is clear and judicious in the point.1